Conference

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

Owning Institution

The State of Australian Cities (SOAC) national conferences have been held biennially since 2003 to support interdisciplinary policy-related urban research. SOAC 7 was held in the City of Gold Coast and hosted by Griffith University.

The 164 peer reviewed papers were organised into seven broad themes but all shared, to varying degrees, a common focus on the ways in which high quality academic research can be used in the development and implementation of policy. The conference featured leading national and local politicians and policy makers who shared their views on some of the current challenges facing cities and how these might be overcome in the future.

Papers from all past and subsequent SOAC conferences can be found at the State of Australian Cities Conferences Collection on APO.

Conference paper

Public greenspaces and crime: an analysis of crime timing and public greenspace amenities

11 Dec 2015

Anthony Kimpton,

Jonathan Corcoran,

Rebecca Wickes

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

Public greenspace is a common feature in urban environments that can provide and promote social and physical well-being, yet they can also encourage deviant or criminal behaviour. This study empirically constructs a typology of greenspace types from spatially integrated local council assets registers, crime incident, and cadastral data.

Conference paper

Precinct regeneration of dispersed public housing in middle suburbs

11 Dec 2015

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper explores the redevelopment potential of ageing and underutilised public housing properties in the middle suburbs of major Australian cities. State governments lack strategies for the renewal of this housing in the current fiscally constrained environment. Responding to this need, this paper presents a design research project that proposes a coordinated, precinct-based regeneration strategy...

Conference paper

Telecommunication infrastructure and pork barrel politics? An Investigation of the National Broadband Network early rollout and voting behaviour in Australia

11 Dec 2015

Tooran Alizadeh

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper focuses on telecommunication infrastructure as the backbone of a fast-growing digital economy, and raises important questions about the early National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia.

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A Neo-Liberal Paradox: Australian State Funding of Major Sporting Stadiums

11 Dec 2015

Glen Searle

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

Australian cities have a history of state-supported major sporting stadiums. This has intensified into the neo-liberal era dating from the 1980s with state funding of major stadium development, despite the greatly increased professionalization of the various sporting codes using the stadiums and the presumable scope for funding of stadium infrastructure by these codes. The last...

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Innovation and transport planning: introducing urban linear ferries in Brisbane

11 Dec 2015

Michael Tanko,

Matthew Burke

7th State of Australian Cities Conference, 9-11 December 2015, Gold Coast, Australia

This paper uses innovation theory, derived from the product development literature, to explore how innovation in the public transport ferry industry in Brisbane occurred.